Our soldiers are only sacred until they need healthcare or protest something, then fuck 'em.
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InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
There’s like 2 groups in this country that are generally treated as sacred: “Little white GURHLS” and soldiers.
Literally not that hard to fuck it up. Is it a little white girl that died or disappeared? Then treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face. Did a soldier just die in war? Then also treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face.
This is clearly a violation of the “treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face” criteria but obviously we know that the media is focused on preserving power for the ownership class over the working class, so not terribly surprising.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Katrisia@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I mean, the number of violent childhoods (physical violence, but also psychological and of course the poverty, hunger, the stress of those situations, the neglect, etc.) in your country, plus the pederasty and pedophilia club running the government and corporations make me think children (in the second case it’s mainly ‘little girls’) are not that important either in current years. Yes, we make fun of the “think of the children!” discourse in the U.S., but those are just words. At least from the distance, I don’t think you’re protecting children enough (and the same is true for a lot of countries, but that’s beyond the point).
chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A correction, dead soldiers are only sacred for about 30 seconds of the broadcast, after that it’s the “idea” of soldiers and not the messy reality. Always phased as “our brave men and women”.
Anything more than that and people might start questioning why those soldiers were there in the first place.
Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And children are only sacred until they’re born.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“The troops” is a nebulous idea you always wholeheartedly support, but any particular vet who goes to the VA becomes a drain on the system to be discarded asap.